planetOzh, File Modification Date in Bash,

One thing really silly is the way digital cameras name their files : dsc00001.jpg or something similar, which is quite annoying when you try to sort old pictures. So I made a small bash script that renames every picture with a more useful filename : 041131-001.jpg for example. To do so, I'm using a Perl script I've made, datemodif, which outputs a modification date in various formats, but I wanted to do a more portable script, using only Bash and default GNU utils, but not Perl.

After some testing, here is the function I've added to my .bash_profile :

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